{"id":741796,"date":"2026-02-10T04:34:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T04:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/741796\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T04:34:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T04:34:18","slug":"bengals-great-willie-anderson-issues-message-after-hof-snub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/741796\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals great Willie Anderson issues message after HOF snub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/test-post-221407100.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cincinnati Bengals;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> great Willie Anderson had nothing but good things to say despite his <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/bengals-great-willie-anderson-denied-142520224.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:latest Hall of Fame snub;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">latest Hall of Fame snub<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson, snubbed in his 13th year of eligibility and automatically a finalist again next year based on his number of votes, issued a positive message and a plea to the Hall itself.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>First, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BigWillie7179\/status\/2019616525791961149\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Anderson\u2019s message;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Anderson\u2019s message<\/a> after the miss:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once again I say this every year Congratulations to the men who made it to The Pro football Hall of fame tonight. All of us who wait for our call Have no ill will towards our brothers who have made it to Football Immortality! Salute you great men and GOD bless all who cheered me on and Thanks for the Prayers! We\u2019ll keep pushing on!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Very notable too, though, is Anderson\u2019s appeal to how the Hall of Fame actually does things.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/bengals-sound-ready-leave-comfort-172606501.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bengals sound ready to leave comfort zone, do contract extension early;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bengals sound ready to leave comfort zone, do contract extension early<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On this topic, Anderson said the following:<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/47853216\/hall-fame-eyes-changes-return-person-voting\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Pro Football Hall of Fame has since announced;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Pro Football Hall of Fame has since announced<\/a> it will return to in-person voting and consider changes. Whether they&#8217;re meaningful enough to stop artifically delaying entry and creating logjams for greats like Anderson (never mind something as egregious as omitting Bill Belichick on his first attempt) remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/bengals-cap-space-outlook-changes-103044361.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bengals cap space outlook changes with NFL salary cap update;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bengals cap space outlook changes with NFL salary cap update<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Bengals Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2026\/02\/09\/bengals-great-willie-anderson-issues-message-hof-snub\/88598894007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bengals great Willie Anderson issues message after HOF snub;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bengals great Willie Anderson issues message after HOF snub<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Bengals great Willie Anderson had nothing but good things to say despite his latest Hall of Fame&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,227,256,2296,7,10858,6,53723,23714],"class_list":{"0":"post-741796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-bengals","9":"tag-cincinnati","10":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","11":"tag-cincinnatibengals","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-hall-of-fame","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-positive-message","16":"tag-willie-anderson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116044474998372569","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}